Philip Greenspun writes: "After two days of touring Wales, a country that apparently has yet to discover the mixing faucet, it has become apparent that there is better mobile phone coverage in the remotest sheep pasture or coastal outcrop than in downtown Boston. How can such an otherwise backward place be so far ahead of the U.S. technologically?" (via Scripting News) [onlineblog.com]

UK: Food processors caught on video boasting that they have developed undetectable methods of adulterating chicken. [Guardian Unlimited]

Microsoft's decision to support RSS without arguing over what it is looks smarter every day. Somehow MS has taught its people not to care about issues that are not related to success or failure of products. Here's how I like to look at it -- formats and protocols are tools, details; the important thing is functionality delivered to users. For HTML it's the page. With OPML it's the outliner. In RSS it's the aggregator. [Scripting News]